This is a nice overview piece on using distributed communities of practice to boost your design/production teams, although there are a few oddities. It doesn’t seem written quite right to perfectly target either corporate or higher ed applications (though it could be very easily modified for either). On the corporate side, it’s a bit too…federated. […]
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Weblogs and Communities of Practice
Here’s a thoughtful post comparing communities of practice to networks of weblogs, apparently distilled from a discussion group at the Blogwalk conference. The short summary: Weblogs are more respectful of their authors and of their audience Weblogs are better connecting tools Communities are better social structures for problem-solving, knowledge stewarding and innovation Communities of practice […]